Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

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Researchers identify ‘universal determinants of AI acceptance’ among healthcare workers

What attributes tend to nudge clinicians toward accepting AI into their work lives? Several, of course—but the most broadly determinative can be trimmed to just two. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: UnitedHealth hearts AI, agentic AI again, healthcare AI dependency, more

Give healthcare workers AI to do their jobs and you might make them AI-dependent. Give them AI anyway?

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First, do no AI: How not to help the world’s struggling healthcare systems

An international team of researchers is calling on healthcare AI proponents to be more mindful of the technology’s unsuitability across much of the developing world. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Devices of unknown generalizability, promises of uncertain keepability, more

Overpromising AI capabilities to hospital stakeholders—now there’s a mistake healthcare AI enthusiasts have been known to make.

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Patient portal messages can train AI to support personalized care in endocrinology (and beyond)

For the study, researchers had five diabetes specialists judge precision AI tools developed from a large, longitudinal dataset of patients’ individually expressed needs. 

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Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more

Bill Gates wasn’t just wrong to suggest AI will make physicians unnecessary. He was reckless. 

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Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’

Healthcare may finally have struck a healthy balance between AI hype and AI reality, according to a report from impartial observers who are also, indirectly at least, healthcare AI stakeholders.

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Newswatch: AI for Medicare folk, AI uncertainty at the FDA, generative ghosts, more

AI is making patient financial advisors of hospital administrators who used to work in revenue cycle management.